Our northwest is a backward region, and its economic conditions and natural environment are much worse than those in other parts of the country.

As far as the entire northwest region is concerned, our county is a backward area among the backward regions.

Originally, this high-speed rail line was not considered to pass through our county, but when designing this high-speed rail line, the designer in charge of this line of the design institute happened to be from our county.

In order to take care of the parents and villagers in his hometown, in order to do a little bit for his hometown, the designer deliberately let this high-speed rail line pass through our county, and also set up a high-speed rail station in our county.

For this project, which is very beneficial to the economic development of our county, whether it is our county, the prefectural party committee or even the provincial leaders, they attach great importance to it, so except for the incident of Li Shunlai, which has caused a little insignificant impact on this high-speed rail project, the whole project has been going smoothly.

But not long after Li Shunlai's case was concluded, when the high-speed rail project was carried out to a place called Xiakou Village, there was a very serious engineering accident.

It turned out that according to the designer's design, the high-speed railway had to build a tunnel several hundred meters long to open up a mountain near Xiakou Village when it passed through Xiakou Village, but when the tunnel was being built, the tunnel suddenly collapsed from the inside, killing more than a dozen workers inside.

More than a dozen lives are a big deal there, but while the leaders of the management departments at all levels were busy dealing with the aftermath of the dozen or so workers who were stoned to death, the designer who designed the line committed suicide.

Before committing suicide, the designer left a suicide note, in which he explained everything, saying that he wanted to do a good deed for his hometown and villagers, but in the end he killed more than a dozen people in their village.

It turned out that this designer was born and raised in Xiakou Village, and when he was surveying and designing this high-speed rail line, he lived in his old home in Xiakou Village with several colleagues from the survey team.

After a few days of surveying, he decided to open up the mountain near Xiakou Village and let the high-speed rail line pass through the middle of the mountain, so that the entire high-speed rail line could be shortened by at least a dozen kilometers.

You must know that the construction cost of a high-speed rail line is at least about 50 million per kilometer, and the distance can be shortened by more than ten kilometers, which means that the cost is reduced by at least hundreds of millions.

But on the night when the designer made this decision, he dreamed that an old man with a white beard came to him and said that he must not let the high-speed rail line pass through the middle of the mountain, otherwise something would happen.

When the designer woke up, he felt that this dream was a bit ridiculous, and he didn't take it seriously.

But the next night he dreamed of the white-bearded old man again, and he still said the same thing, and even the white-bearded old man begged him in a low voice, asking him not to design the line as he had planned.

After having another dream like this the next day, the designer felt a little weird, but if the route was modified, the cost of the high-speed rail line would have to increase by hundreds of millions, which was absolutely unacceptable from his designer's point of view.

So the designer still stuck to his own ideas.

And on the third night, a few minutes after he fell asleep, the old man with the white beard soon came.

The old man knelt down in front of the designer after he came, almost begging the designer to let his children and grandchildren go, and to change the line he designed.

Even in a dream, the designer felt a little annoyed and scared!

So the designer fooled the old man, saying that his design had been reported to the design institute, and when he returned to the design institute, he would discuss with the leaders to revise the route and try to bypass the mountain in Xiakou Village.

Since the designer said so, the old man didn't say anything more, and disappeared into the designer's dream very strangely.

After the designer was awakened, he always felt that the dreams he had in the past few days were too weird, but he had indeed reported the design route to the design institute, and even if he wanted to change it, he had to agree with the leaders of the design institute.

This involves hundreds of millions of cost increases, which is not something that he can decide as a designer!

Can't because of a dream he made, the entire project will increase the cost of hundreds of millions, right?

So after thinking about it again, the designer didn't even mention it to the leaders of the design institute.

In this way, as the high-speed rail line was finally determined, the high-speed rail project began to be under normal construction, everything went smoothly, and the designer was about to forget about the old man.

Even in order to help the villagers in their village, the designer even said hello to the construction unit, and recruited more local workers when building the tunnel in Xiakou Village, so that it would be convenient for the villagers to make a little money.

The construction unit will definitely sell this face to the designer, and recruited a lot of villagers from Xiakou Village to be workers, and also gave them good treatment.

On the day of the construction of the tunnel, at the invitation of our county leaders, he returned to his hometown to attend the groundbreaking ceremony and accept the sincere gratitude of the people in his hometown.

After all, he did a great deed to the fathers and villagers of our entire county without violating the principle, and it is reasonable that the people of our county should be grateful to him.

Invited by the leaders of his hometown and county, he also did a great thing for the parents and villagers in his hometown, which is a very long-faced thing, so the designer happily accepted the invitation to participate in the groundbreaking ceremony of the Xiakou Village Tunnel.

The groundbreaking ceremony was held in a grand manner, and the designer could be said to have taken the limelight, and there was a lot of praise and gratitude everywhere when he walked there.

After the groundbreaking ceremony, with the order of the leader of the construction unit, the explosives buried in various key points in the mountain were detonated, and the construction of the Xiakou Village Tunnel officially began.

Once the explosives were detonated, the workers began to use excavators and other tools to dig up the rocks that had been blown apart by the explosives.

But in the process of digging stones, a large number of flesh-and-blood snake carcasses were dug up.

It turned out that there was a huge snake cave hidden in this mountain, and according to the number of people excavated by the workers, I am afraid that at least hundreds of snakes were killed when the mountain was blown up this time.

When the designer saw the corpses of snakes that had been blown up all over the mountains, his face suddenly became ugly and ugly.

At this time, the designer suddenly remembered the dream full of weirdness he had in the past few days!

He remembered what the old man with the white beard had said to him!

The white-bearded old man had begged him to spare his descendants, and he had promised at the time!

Could it be that the offspring that the white-bearded old man spoke of are the snakes that spread all over the mountains?

The designer felt infinite fear, but it was too late for him to regret it!

He can't do anything if he wants to change!

That night he stayed in his old house in Shimoguchi Village with a heavy heart, and not long after he fell asleep, the old man with the white beard came.

The white-bearded old man was covered in blood when he came this time, and he pointed at the designer and scolded, saying that the designer does not speak of credibility, and his words do not count!

And after scolding the designer, the white-bearded old man with a bloody voice told the designer that he would definitely avenge his dead descendants!

The death of his descendants must be paid for by blood!

The designer woke up in fright, only to find that it was another strange and strange dream.

But this dream made him feel terrified!

He felt that this dream was very likely to be true, and that white-bearded old man was probably the ancestor of hundreds of snakes!

In other words, he is most likely a snake that has become a spirit!

Snake spirit, in our local area is called snake fairy is also called willow fairy!

Because the legend of the gossip of the Fu Xi clan is the head of the snake body, and because the hometown of the Fu Xi clan is not far from our county, our people here are very in awe of the snake animal.

The worship of the Fuxi clan with a human head and a snake body comes from ancient times!

Although the designer is also an intellectual, he has been influenced by our local customs and legends since he was a child, and he still believes in these things very much in his bones.

But in modern society, spreading this kind of feudal superstition with his identity, I am afraid that few people will believe him, but it will have a greater impact on his personal reputation and work future.

So the designer did not say anything, but he has been closely following the progress of the entire tunnel construction project, and for safety reasons, he has not let go of every detail of the construction process.

But even so, just when everyone thought that the construction of the tunnel would be completed smoothly, the tunnel that had been repaired suddenly collapsed, and more than a dozen people were killed.

The dozen or so people who were stoned to death were all from the designer's village, and what is even more strange is that it is said that it was also these dozen people who planted explosives at various blasting points in the mountain at that time.

The white-bearded old man said that someone had to pay for the debt, and he did!

The designer believes that all of this is due to him, and the dozen or so people who died in their village include his own brothers, his uncles, and several of his friends who grew up together.

And all these people died because of him!

He had to be held accountable for this, so he committed suicide!

When Wu Shun's father said this, all three of us sighed.

It stands to reason that this designer is a good man, he just made an unintentional mistake, but why did he end up so badly?

At this time, I suddenly thought of a sentence that my father often said to me, he said that people cannot stand without faith, and what they can't do, don't promise, once they promise, they must do it.

Because people can be deceived, but heaven cannot be deceived, and as long as cause and effect are owed, sooner or later they will have to be repaid!